Deep Down - Family
Dec. 1st, 2003 03:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyWow, that first dream just makes me shiver in delight. Such amazing set-up. All the ingredients are right there. And seeing Angel's want is such a horrible, hopeless thing.
I believe that the only time that we ever see Wesley wear glasses in S4 is in Angel's dream (question - does he have them in Awakening? I'd guess not, as that surely would have given the dream away.).
But the dream. Wow.
A warm group, full of love and hope and teasing.
Then the first moment of truth - "I'm starving." I'd imagine he is, since he hasn't eaten in how long? Right after that, he says he wants to freeze the moment, the exact words that dream!Connor uses against him.
And we see Wesley, undeniably part of the family. A moment of discord all on its own, since the last time those two were together, Angel was swearing that he'd never forgive Wes.
Wesley toasts to family, and Angel has an empty glass that Cordy wants to fill with water. Well, water is all he has, isn't it? And in the toast to family, Angel's glass is always, inevitably, empty.
Connor interrupts the C/A near-mackage, and Angel ruffles Connor's hair, leading to the next point of discord - "I could poke your eyes out." Hmm. There should be a play. All throughout this sequence, there are hints of what is to come.
Everyone starts eating, but Angel doesn't get the chance. It's interesting that Angel shows the desire to eat in this dream, in the way he never does in the real world. He wants his family, his home, and his humanity - only human Angel eats real food.
Angel grabs a plate from Connor, but all that's on it is juice - blood. He isn't human. He doesn't eat human food. All he can satisfy himself with is blood.
Trying to deny that, he knocks over his glass, shattering it and spilling its water across the floor.
Cordy chids him and is gone. As is the warmth of the family setting. Fighting his nature loses him even the false safety of the water glass, of Cordy, and its hidden promise.
Now only Connor is with Angel, and the floor is covered in water, the room filled with a ghostly, watery glow. When Angel was last alone with Connor, he found himself doomed to the bottom of the sea.
Connor mocks him and Angel is revealed to be lost and alone, trapped in a box at the bottom of the ocean.
It's interesting, what dreams say. Cordy on his right, Connor on his left. Cordy abandons him and Connor betrays him. That's about the size of what happened at the end of season three. And Wesley is at the far end of the table, too separated by space to do anything. Where Angel put him, unable to trust him, to look at him after what he'd done.
Cordy, Connor, and Wesley are the only ones to directly interact with Angel in the dream. The rest are background noise, used to make Angel feel more like a normal man.
Of those three, Cordy is now trapped in her own body and Connor is forgotten. Wesley has been caged and his mind has been fucked, but he's still there.
Instead of Cordy and Connor, Angel has Fred/Eve and Gunn/Spike (that's an instinctive thought - I'll need to think more about why those are the duos that came to mind).
I believe that the only time that we ever see Wesley wear glasses in S4 is in Angel's dream (question - does he have them in Awakening? I'd guess not, as that surely would have given the dream away.).
But the dream. Wow.
A warm group, full of love and hope and teasing.
Then the first moment of truth - "I'm starving." I'd imagine he is, since he hasn't eaten in how long? Right after that, he says he wants to freeze the moment, the exact words that dream!Connor uses against him.
And we see Wesley, undeniably part of the family. A moment of discord all on its own, since the last time those two were together, Angel was swearing that he'd never forgive Wes.
Wesley toasts to family, and Angel has an empty glass that Cordy wants to fill with water. Well, water is all he has, isn't it? And in the toast to family, Angel's glass is always, inevitably, empty.
Connor interrupts the C/A near-mackage, and Angel ruffles Connor's hair, leading to the next point of discord - "I could poke your eyes out." Hmm. There should be a play. All throughout this sequence, there are hints of what is to come.
Everyone starts eating, but Angel doesn't get the chance. It's interesting that Angel shows the desire to eat in this dream, in the way he never does in the real world. He wants his family, his home, and his humanity - only human Angel eats real food.
Angel grabs a plate from Connor, but all that's on it is juice - blood. He isn't human. He doesn't eat human food. All he can satisfy himself with is blood.
Trying to deny that, he knocks over his glass, shattering it and spilling its water across the floor.
Cordy chids him and is gone. As is the warmth of the family setting. Fighting his nature loses him even the false safety of the water glass, of Cordy, and its hidden promise.
Now only Connor is with Angel, and the floor is covered in water, the room filled with a ghostly, watery glow. When Angel was last alone with Connor, he found himself doomed to the bottom of the sea.
Connor mocks him and Angel is revealed to be lost and alone, trapped in a box at the bottom of the ocean.
It's interesting, what dreams say. Cordy on his right, Connor on his left. Cordy abandons him and Connor betrays him. That's about the size of what happened at the end of season three. And Wesley is at the far end of the table, too separated by space to do anything. Where Angel put him, unable to trust him, to look at him after what he'd done.
Cordy, Connor, and Wesley are the only ones to directly interact with Angel in the dream. The rest are background noise, used to make Angel feel more like a normal man.
Of those three, Cordy is now trapped in her own body and Connor is forgotten. Wesley has been caged and his mind has been fucked, but he's still there.
Instead of Cordy and Connor, Angel has Fred/Eve and Gunn/Spike (that's an instinctive thought - I'll need to think more about why those are the duos that came to mind).